Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-08-18

This u pleasant. pretty vintage. Inc baptistr
have fine house Of worship. recently renovat-
Ell Mt a cost of some fourteen hundred dollars.
Surrounding the village are extensive farms
in good state Of cultivation. Considerable in
terest is taken in the Improvement OF stock.
Having been here but short time | can give
but little information in regard TO the place
and It's business. The weather Is fine no fog.
but frequent showers have caused the crops of
the industrious farmers to be very abundant.
The hay crop Is above the average this season.
BANGOR HISTORICAL MAGAZINE.--We have
received the Bangor Historical Magazine for
June from the publishers. 1t is an interesting
humber aud the following are its contents ::
The first European Settlement In New Eng
land The Voyage OF Samuel De Champlsin on
the Coast of Maine. from the Saint Croix to
the Penobscot. in the month Of September.
1904; Hon. Isaac Parker, of Castine. Penob-
scot Inscriptions from Gravestoues in the Old
Burying Ground in Wiseasset, Me-; Letter
from Silas Lee, OF Wiscasset. Member OF Con-
grc>s from Maine, 1797-ls00; Rev. William
Mason. Of Ca>tne; The Incorporation Of
Towns IN Penobscot County; Penohscot Coun-
tv; Petition OF John Brewer. Of orrington ;
Deaths in Rangor. 1884; Additions and Cor
rections, Vol. II.
A special dispatch To the .ihaRta CoEsfi-
fpt}on. dated Liihonia. Ga August g. says
At about O'clock last evening rs three work
men, In the employ Of the Southern Granite
company. were engaged in >wabbing out the
holes for second blast. the ledge settled aud
.t nv tI,a
friction. At the time OF the explosion u heavy
drill. eleven feet long and weighing forty
pounds. WAS living across the top Of the hole.
This drill was carried three hundred feet in
the air. striking Holman Clark, coiored. one
Of The men ut work, and tearing his face com
pleielv of. He died almost instantly. 1obc
Turner. also colored. had his right arm broken
in mo place, aud was otherwise seriously in
iurca when the drill wa, found It was bent
at both ends. Mr.. George W. Collins. super
iutcndcut Of the quarrie>. has been acting In
that capacity for about T. wears aud thi> j. the
fir-t accident with powder he ha> ever had
The old natives around Bar Hsrbor src
grow ling continually about the turning ot
night into day BY the wicked visitors They
i. have grea, deal of ground FOR complaint.
too. Eleven o',lock there j. hardly the height
81 the evening and the hotel vcrandah> reSound
to the footsteps of the promcnader> until 3
o'clock in the morning. sprouts restaurant.
which /. palronzcd by thrst people, dor- not
clo-r until In the morning and ccEAni supper
arr given there by the swell people, which
commence at midnight The early part of
IL
from ten 70 eleven O'Clock breakfast ]. At ~
heiGh, ID the hotels. The staid New England
~ who are accustomed to a sunset and sun
ri>c way Of doing business, are given shock
by these proceedings.
There wa~ ! large gathering % the Patrons
II IIu.hanlry AZ Emery Hall Buck.port the
ls;h The meeting wa- held under thu
au~pjcc. 81 Iar Harco,k County Grsn-" and
Worthy Master Norton presided. EN-Gov
R"hjr made au Nrcllcrt >Iccgh and introduced
Hon. Mortimer Whitehead. national leoturrr
II the T. II H. Mr.. Whliehcad'- sd'irr-~ uc-
ruriei about two hour and commanded the
III t.,f attention nfthc very intel. GENT auiicn'
The r,mark, were very instructive "a some
points. and BE- kept the sudcncr IN state 81
good humor hs h. WHY .sdiics. \ secret
session wa, hcI IN The evening. AZ .iN o'el",A
all ncrc invited 70 the dining ball. y herr 'hr
members OF thr Hancock county Grausr haL
"a, pared au excellent ami spp~tilnS supper.
The steamer FOREST Civ" 81 tn new d.
l,.f steamboat iju" h,twe.u Bar Ilsrbor and
Eo.tuu. mak rwo trip, ser w,ck runuin- .
fr EAST u Mschissvo-, and tou, hing 1t Jonr.-
rar, NtlhriI- und ta>iiu.. Her officer ara
,har.-. pc.riHS. master: u. :. Hall. 1t pilot 4;
: II. Fix. - pilot: Charles lIpishin-, en-
-iut,r: Geo. H. p,,riuc. ri engineer; WIN j.
cooper pur>cr.t q. >tur.is aut. nialc II Vi.
nsu-la,., 81 mitc. John :. Brown. stewart.
The Forrest city j. IA good running order. with
good .l4'croon. aud ,scu calculated lo arrom-
u.aia'. ia,~.nE+r-. She ha- also nnl'r ca-
la,it, for freight and comes hca,lly laden.
ANON, ihe diversion, which have fak'u q
>'rau-. hIlI on Har iiafhor i-itaf-,th.- season
j. that nf canoeing. Il hu, crown In popular
its among aquatic sports. and several nf ;SIr
swell Young men are taking IN il. The Bar
Hagi5r Cauo, Club ha~ IT, w~,kiy drills. sud
IT, nauuu,r.in-> ar. interesting performance.
The canoes ~ ih. cluh are lnai, from the
white birch. obtained in the Maine wilder
No.. q ,hc bead of the rrnob.coi water The
D., l., alive with Young rropl" who pll the
oar and paddles ,uorectiraly, whirh send
them ,iign'n- around thu r"rA- ami stand. 70
manner suggesting The tirir ~h'u the braN.-
anj ,iaAH- padded their canoe through thee
sap, beautiful ~a'cr,.
~liurIa, afternoon the steam ,nrllt >tran-
.,r. nt ihr Nrw York Yacht Club met " ith
an a,ril.ut at Bar IiaT,or which camr very
near proving fatal TO her making any more
cruises thi- season. The steamer CITY Of Rich
m3ni. While backing cut from the wharf,
struck rht head boom Of the Stranger. just -
the lat;,f wa- about getting up her anchor and
carried away all her beadsear. bow-prit in
clui,I After some slight delay il CLEARING
AWAY thu ~rryAage, the yach, pluckih got
under way aud stood out Of the harbor 10 the
westward. returning 10 the auchoraSt towards
suu,,f.
The hull ~ the >lestnrT city Of Ellsworth,
built at East Boston for the Rockland sud
Ellsworth route. ha, been completed and
launched. Workmcn arr now putting in her
machinery and finishing and furnishing her.
II !. expected -hc will be- ready 10 20 Oh the
route in about Two weeks. >br will be iinr
vessel. well suited to the route. which requires
q light draft and large carrying capacity. She
Viii draw but four feet Of water. >hr " III
have two screw, driven BY compound en-inc,
anl j. expected TO be- very fast She i. l40
feet oter sll, i feet wide and icei deep, and
will carry 400 passenger and large amount OF
freight
I b. new mail route from Bangor 10 Deer
island By stcsmer Cimbria !, proving great
convenience 10 the people in that community
They .et their nail every Tuesday, Thursday
and saturday Al O'Clock p. NJ. leaving Bangor
every alternate day at 9 20 \. NJ, Thi- give
them their mail - hours from Boston. The
people want a better mail service from Buch>-
Iori to Green's Landing, this i an eXtra
,crS ice aud viii last only short time.
CAPITA X Woodward has recently worked
an uupromising locust stick into cane Of very
fancifu design. BY manipulating the upper
end OF the cane and the several knot, on the
stick -craping little here and leaving little
bark there. he has brought out several very re-
markablc faces. The face on the end of the
stick looks like that OF some degraded pusnac
ious Old topper. In addition to this there are
the heads of two Indians one Malay, one Chin
atn.n t.yo ioy> onp gorilla. ti-gcf. tive